Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932276AbWB0UGl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:06:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932288AbWB0UGl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:06:41 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]:39487 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932276AbWB0UGk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:06:40 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rGhxJoCdQ+b1Sype4yPGHYGPrdvadWX6wRU9rEplM+Wpc7nLLPSyEWZCT/Xu9vroBHMPOVCGynMNN9I+ucN4cWPCGG6HmX9DsVikdG0+jP9/fByIdM/Xt+KO5iprsUlq1hyYMMj13upNVrV5NrG823lrdhexgECJx0inlYc9Xs4= Message-ID: <9a8748490602271206n63fb4f95g8bb15bad5e81bbb3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:06:39 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Cc: "Greg KH" , gregkh@suse.de, "Kay Sievers" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 30 On 27 Feb 2006 20:31:28 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > As has been noticed recently by a lot of different people, it seems like > > we are breaking the userspace<->kernelspace interface a lot. Well, in > > looking back over time, we always have been doing this, but no one seems > > to notice (proc files changing format and location, netlink library > > bindings, etc.) > > Ok, but how do you plan to address the basic practical problem? > People cannot freely upgrade/downgrade kernels anymore since udev/hal > are used widely in distributions. > Just a datapoint: My distribution (Slackware) uses udev (but not hal) and I move between lots of different 2.6.x kernels and even 2.4.x kernels without problems. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/